If you gave to HCM in 2014, you should have received a copy of our 2014 Year in Review in the mail by now. We are thankful for Michael Blumenstein, our Director of Finance, and his wife Diane for bringing together a group of their friends in Conyers, GA to help prepare all the envelopes to be mailed. Click to view our 2014 Year in Review.

If you have any questions or if you need to update your address or other information, please email Michael at michael@haitianchristianmission.org.

We thank you for all that you do for the Kingdom! With the Kingdom in mind, the best is yet to come.

Appetite calls for feeding. Feeding attracts appetite. Lovingsky, nicknamed Kiki, saw a man eating a piece of cake while riding in a pickup called a tap-tap in Haiti. He was hungry. He started chanting to his mother whose lap he was sitting on, "Look at the man eating a cake." He said that several times. Then a crust fell on the floor. He cried to the man, "You dropped a crust, sir." His mother scolded him. He desperately wanted a piece of it. When someone is hungry, he wants to eats. This is hard on a child. But if you haven't been there, you can't understand that kind of craving.

Well, I rode that road while I was growing up. This is why I can understand the cry of many. There were times when I did not eat a meal for two days and I would faint during class. Only a small glass of juice brought me back up. During those years, my parents were feeding evil spirits in efforts to appease them. So the food was wasted away instead of being applied to feeding their hungry kids. Ignorance can be costly.

During my thirty-nine years of ministry, I have witnessed hundreds, if not thousands, of children fainting in classrooms or on the streets of Haiti. Sometimes the parents brought them to the clinic with first, second or third degree malnutrition. Special nutrition, that is all the doctor needs to prescribe and the child is back up jumping again before long. Feeding is power.

Jesus saw a hungry and tired crowd that was following him. Both Matthew and Mark say that He had compassion on them (Mat. 14:14. 15:32; Mark 6:34; 8:2). HCM/ProHaiti wants to feed children in the remote areas where there is drought, food scarcity and malnutrition. A human brain can be wasted without food, but with the proper nutrients, children can be revived and God can use one more brain to bring the nation back to him. Food is power. Can you help empower hungry children in the mission feeding program? 

Psalm 103-

Bless the Lord, O my soul;

and all that is within me, bless His holy name.

Bless the Lord, O my soul.

Vernal Christian Church out of Utah has been blessed to send two teams of 21 people to serve in Haiti. 2014 was the first year we were acquainted with the country and we fell completely in love. The very heartbeat of our church is missions and being able to go serve in Haiti has been life changing for many of us. We returned from our first trip and knew that we had to go back. We were able to get back to Haiti on January 31st, with all 43 of our suitcases packed full of donations from our church and community. God has provided in every aspect. We were also able to raise $27,000.00 to go towards the projects we wanted to accomplish.

VBS was one of the things we knew we had to do at several schools. We go there to tell the story, pray the kids listen and understand the message, and leave completely full of love for them. This year we told the story of Jonah and found that at each school, God put a different focus on the story. God's plan for each of our lives, His mercy that we don't deserve, His forgiveness when we mess up, and the Gospel we are told to share. If one child was reached, it was worth everything. 
 

Food distributions to the villages was a powerful thing that we did last year. The blessing was to go back to the same places that we went last year and see the improvements. There was a particular village that we knew as "the naked village" from our trip in 2014. There was no water, no sanitation, and many people with no clothes. We knew there was a huge need there so we prepared a clothes/food distribution. It was so great when we pulled up and saw five outhouses there, a big water tank, a propane tank, and a new church. To see that their lives are improving fills us with joy and gives us a picture of hope!

In 2014, what really broke our hearts was the orphanages. There are so many children that lost their families in the earthquake, and so many more with terrible stories. A huge chunk of our hearts were left there when we came back home to Utah. This year one of our major projects was building a wall for Whole Hearted Orphanage. They are expanding so that they can take care of more kids. Our team loved working alongside the Haitian people to get a part of this wall built. There is such a need and it can, at times, be overwhelming. But if there is anything that we've discovered, it is that our God is so much greater than the evil in this world. We are just blessed to be a part of His Body, the hands and feet, and we will continue to be until the world is reached!